Word: maximized
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Since it is not within your power to change the rules of their game, you can not change its results. However, you can change the game that you will play. Jackson saw the truth of this maxim manifested in the liberation struggles of African peoples. In their struggles, he saw men and women who, though they were black and oppressed, had discovered a way to disengage themselves from the cultural and psychological oppression that American blacks still suffered under. Once disengaged, the Africans were able to devise successful ways of terminating colonial tyranny and establishing their own independence...
Medieval Dish. Sensitive to criticism that the whole thing was a mite overdone, the Shah inquired angrily before the party: "Why are we reproached for serving dinner to 50 heads of state? What am I supposed to do-serve them bread and radishes?" Hardly. The affair was catered by Maxim's of Paris, which sent to Persepolis 165 chefs, wine stewards and waiters. Maxim's shopping list included 25,000 bottles of wine-including a Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, 1945, at $100 a bottle-that were sent to Iran a month early to rest. There were also...
...depends for its enduring value. His handling of tone (and thus of space) tended to be weak, and his drawing was often coarse and perfunctory. His strength was neurosis, and the best of his etchings, with their strangely modern battles of id and antimacassar, are illustrations of a Freudian maxim: civilization is repression...
...program for colleges, Chief Justice Burger's opinion reasoned, lies in the court's belief that parochial schoolteachers are less likely than professors at religious colleges to keep religion out of their secular courses. ("Give me a child for the first seven years," says a Jesuit maxim, "and you may do what you like with him afterwards.") Even with the best of intentions, a dedicated layman "teaching in a school affiliated with his or her faith and operated to inculcate its tenets, will inevitably experience great difficulty in remaining religiously neutral." Moreover, Burger argued, schools have fewer built...
...some political circles, it has passed for a maxim that the new 18-year-old vote will make little difference. Last year, for example. Political Analysts Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammon wrote in The Real Majority that the young, if they bother to vote at all, will probably vote along the same lines as their parents...